Robin: So we may get a fish for our classroom. I was at Walmart the other day and looking...
Ally: But we can't get a narwhal, because they are much too big for our classroom. And they live in the ocean. And the ocean is saltwater. But maybe if we all went to the ocean and got a bucket of water and ...
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Robin is speaking to a co-worker about plans for watching a baseball game at a sports bar
Ally: Can I go with you?!!
Robin: No, Ally, the place we're going is only for adults.
Ally: But if I ask my mom...
Robin: You have to be 21, Ally.
Ally: Well, when I'm older, I'll going to go there and I won't even invite you!
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Ally: OK, what's a kind of animal that can have 16 legs?
Robin: I don't know.
Ally: A seastar.
Robin: I don't think I knew that.
Anya: It has 5 legs!
Ally: (to Anya) No it doesn't. A starfish has five legs (to Robin) Actually, I meant a sunstar. It's a kind of starfish. Do you know what that's called? A species.
**We've been reading a Discovery Kids book about animals and watching PBS Nature shows.
Well, I sure learned something there.
Posted by: arizaphale | July 11, 2009 at 03:02 AM